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"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague." -Cicero

US Defense Contractor Arrested After Caught Smuggling US Fighter Jet Plans to Iran

US contractor Mozaffar Khazaee was arrested after he was caught
smuggling thousands of secret documents – including blueprints for one
of the U.S. Air Force’s most advanced fighter jets – to Iran.The Daily Mail reported:

A Connecticut engineer with dual, U.S.-Iranian
citizenship was arrested by federal authorities last week after it was
learned that he was attempting to smuggle thousands of secret documents –
including blueprints for one of the U.S. Air Force’s most advanced
fighter jets – to Iran, prosecutors confirmed Monday.According to authorities, Mozaffar Khazaee had
labeled boxes containing the documents as ‘household goods’ when he
shipped them from his home in Connecticut to California on their way to
Hamadan, Iran.Khazaee was arrested last week at Newark Liberty International
Airport in New Jersey as he was attempting to travel to Germany and then
on to Iran, where he planned to meet a contact and turn over the boxes
containing ‘sensitive technical manuals, specification sheets, and other
proprietary material’ related to the F-35 and its engines to agents
presumably with the Iranian government, according to an affidavit filed
by a Special Agent of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland
Security Investigations.Authorities say the documents labled as ‘household goods’ initially
was discovered in November, when Customs agents inspected the truck
Khazaee had used to ship the boxes of documents across the country
en-route to Iran.The shipping company Khazaee used described the boxes as containing
‘books and college-related items, two suitcases, a vacuum cleaner and
some other items,’According to authorities, however, the boxes contained ‘thousands of
pages contained in dozens of manuals/binders relating to the JSF [F-35
Joint Strike Fighter] program.’Khazaee has worked as an engineer for several defense contractors
across the U.S. None of the defense companies are specifically named in
court documents, but his latest employer – identified in court records
as ‘company A’ – has been identified by the Blaze.com as
Connecticut-based Pratt and Whitney.‘Pratt & Whitney has been cooperating fully with the government
on this matter and will continue to do so,’ Matthew Bates,
Communications Manager at Pratt & Whitney Military Engines tells the
website.

Smuggler: Mozaffar Khazaee is accused of trying to smuggle plans for a top-secret fighter jet to his home country, Iran. (Daily Mail)